Official 2010 Olympics Thread
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- juhls0
Speed skating today, yesss
I hope Canada can take the hockey and curling medals.
- digdre0
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics…
this is how you win them gold
- _niko0
- that's the Olympic spirit!sequoia
- He was pretty good, the dreads look ridiculous, but so is most of snowboarding culture.Andrew_D
- asian dude with dreads?!? i didnt know it was possiblefrost215
- Uh, yeah, a lot of the snowboarders look ridiculous. I mean, look at Shaun White.juhls
- excuse me juhlsismith
- shaun is simply my more athletic ginger twin. explain yourself! :Pismith
- also with much more money for clothes than me and probably a nicer houseismith
- more friends, etcismith
- loljuhls
- he has some sick slow air.refunktion
- eieio0
Canada almost got upset against the swiss. right down to the last penalty shot.
- juhls0
Evan Lysacek was too good in his gold medal skate today.
Congrats to Patrick Chan, who came in 5th. He's only 19, so the expectations are too high for his experience level.
- mg330
Wow, the SUN doesn't heap on more humiliation or anything...
"Rolland will now go down in Winter Olympic Games folklore as one of the great failures alongside Brit ski jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards and the Jamaican bobsleigh team."
- BuddhaHat0
Gold to Australia for the women's halfpipe, woo!
- mg330
Shaun White Playboy interview - a good read!
- JazX0
- digdre0
How did the snow leopard do?
- DaveO0
LOlympics
- juhls0
Skeleton finals!
- iheartfun0
G S B T
1 United States 6 5 7 18
2 Germany 4 4 3 11
3 Norway 3 3 2 8
- juhls0
Fffuuuuuuuc....Hollingsworth failed in her last skeleton run. Had one of the best start times, but hit the side twice and ended up losing her 2nd spot, let alone the chance of getting a gold medal. First in the world before this event.
(yeah, I like her as an athlete, which is why I care. Must suck for her)Now I wait for the men to slide....
By the way, Canada is definitely not living up to their expectations right now. I'm not bothered by it that much (no one watches most of these sports outside of the Olympics), but I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't exceed the 24 medals we received last time.
- Also, winning medals helps boost the athletes even more. The next medal better be sooner than something for speed skating.juhls
- refunktion0
sometimes i want to punch people for crap like this:
- juhls0
Analysis regarding men and figure skating:
"If hockey is considered the most anticipated sport at the Vancouver Games, and curling the least exciting, then figure skatinghas to be the most divisive.
That's not to say all women hold their breath when Russia's Evgeni Plushenko goes for a quadruple jump or that some men aren't mesmerized by the athleticism and artistry it takes to pull off a flawless routine.
But the sport does have a lopsided fan base, and the reasons go much deeper than sequins and Lycra. It's the absence of black and white scores, objective decisions and clear-cut rules that turns many men off.
"When I'm watching figure skating or when I'm watching the snowboard half-pipe or I'm watching any of those that are fully judged sports, I have no clue as I'm watching along who's winning and who's losing," says Dan Cook, who lives in Minneapolis, Minn.
Mr. Cook, an avid sports fan who writes a blog called the Sports Take, says he respects the abilities of figure skaters, but that he can't get past the subjective scoring.
"It becomes too involved a process or just an impossible process. I don't get a whole lot of enjoyment out of watching it."
Some men take the argument one step further by declaring that that figure skating is more art than sport and should not be included in the Olympics.
"Nothing done to music is a sport. And anything involving costumes (especially with sequins) is not a sport. Sports have uniforms, not costumes," columnist Ken Herman wrote in the Austin American-Statesman last week.
Experts say that many men are simply too uncomfortable with the flamboyant outfits and seemingly feminine behaviour of some skaters - such as Johnny Weir of the United States, hailed as the Lady Gaga of figure skating - to kick back and enjoy it."
If you care, more here:
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/figure…